Abstract: The subject matter proposes an automated compact depackaging system. The depackaging system includes a receiving hopper, a vertical depackager, dumpsters and a sedimentation unit. The vertical depackager simultaneously removes and cleans packaging materials and the materials that exit the system are clean and organics free. The system also includes a dosing device for dosed discharge of waste or bulk material into the hopper. The hopper may also receive the organic wastes directly from trucks. The dosing device is fitted with metal to identify metals in the bulk material. The assembly includes a grabber on an overhead crane to pick up the metal piece once located. The hopper comprises air doors and air roofs to keep off from smell spreading into the room. The organics that are extracted from the waste are free of plastics and other packaging material.

Abstract: A Vernier external rotor machine for direct drive of a load is provided. The Vernier external rotor machine includes an external rotor configured to mechanically directly drive to a load.

Abstract: A motorized pulley mounted on a stationary shaft to drive a conveyor belt. The motorized pulley is constructed of an axial-flux motor in a housing connected to the motor's rotor. A driver including a drive ring has a drive surface mounted to the periphery of the housing to rotate with the rotor and the housing and drive a conveyor belt. The motor's stator is affixed to the shaft axially offset from the rotor.

Abstract: A motor comprising: (a) one or more motor stators including a plurality of motor windings; (b) a roller shaft connected to the one or more motor stators, the roller shaft extending along a longitudinal axis of the motor and being adapted to span between two frame members; and (c) a motor rotor including: (i) a roller tube including a key, a key recess, or both, and (ii) one or more ring magnets having: (1) a mating surface shaped to substantially mate to a mating surface of the roller tube and (2) a key recess that receives the key of the roller tube, that receives a separate key that extends into the key recess of one of the one or more ring magnets and the key recess, or both; wherein the one or more ring magnets are produced from a rare earth metal; and wherein the motor rotor carries a load of an article so that the article is moved by the motor rotor.

Abstract: Zones of an accumulation conveyor are controlled using a look ahead approach. The speed and article presence conditions of downstream and upstream zones are used to assess the condition of article flow in the neighborhood of a particular zone. The respective speeds of individual zones are then selected and implemented based on the assessment.

Abstract: A drive switching mechanism includes first to third transmission element trains, a connection/disconnection element disposed at one of a position between the first and second transmission element trains and a position in the third transmission element train, and a rotation restraining element disposed at the other of the positions. When a drive transmission path is disconnected by the connection/disconnection element, the rotation restraining element is drivenly rotated on the basis of a driving force transmitted from the first transmission element train and selects a drive transmission path that is different from the drive transmission path disconnected by the connection/disconnection element.

Abstract: A card-shaped medium processing device may include an insertion port to which a card-shaped medium is inserted, a medium feeder capable of abutting with a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port to carry the card-shaped medium, and a motor for driving the medium feeder. A taking-in maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of a taking-in operation of a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port is set to be smaller than an ejecting maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of an ejecting operation of the card-shaped medium toward the insertion port. A control method for a card-shaped medium processing device may include the same relationship, i.e., the taking-in maximum value is set to be smaller than the ejecting maximum value.

Abstract: A non-back-bending chain having a plurality of links wherein said links include a rounded portion, a right flat portion, a bottom portion, and a left flat portion. The rounded portion allows the chain to bend or coil in one direction. The flat portions, when in contact, prevent the chain from bending in the opposite direction. Therefore, a chain that can be used to both “push” and “pull” is provided. Further, the chain can be used to provide a rigid extension that can be used to support a force even when only supported by one end. The chain can be retracted for storage and bunched or coiled.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a plurality of conveying rollers supported in parallel at predetermined intervals, and conveys a workpiece to a heat-retaining/heating furnace from a rolling mill by the conveying rollers. The conveying device includes an impact prediction data collecting unit and a control unit. The impact prediction data collecting unit acquires data on the upstream of the heat-retaining/heating furnace. The data is used to predict the magnitude of an impact applied to rollers in the furnace, which are positioned in the heat-retaining/heating furnace, of the conveying rollers by the workpiece. The control unit predicts the magnitude of an impact from the data, which is acquired by the impact prediction data collecting unit, and adjusts the conveying speed of the workpiece in the heat-retaining/heating furnace according to the magnitude of the impact.

Abstract: A push-pull chain that can bend in one direction only, and is provided with at least two rollers on each of the driving pins, one of the rollers engages a drive sprocket and the other of said at least two rollers engages a chain guide surface. An actuator for e.g. opening and closing a window that uses this dual-roller push-pull chain. A link driven push-pull chain that can bend in one direction only, with links that is shaped as an engagement surface for engaging a drive sprocket. An actuator for e.g. opening and closing a window that uses the link driven push-pull chain.

Abstract: An article storage device for storing a plurality of pallets and having a plurality of storage compartments includes a conveyor for conveying the pallets, the conveyor being divided into a plurality of control zones corresponding to the respective storage compartments and having controllers in the respective zones. At least the controllers in the zones between the both end control zones each have a motor functioning also as an arrival detector, a RAM, and a communication circuit, the motor being for detecting a pallet being entering the home control zone, the RAM being for memorizing information indicating whether a pallet exists in the home control zone, and the communication circuit being for transmitting the information to the controller in the downstream zone. The controllers each contain a program to move up the pallet to the downstream zone so as to store the pallet.

Abstract: A card-shaped medium processing device may include an insertion port to which a card-shaped medium is inserted, a medium feeder capable of abutting with a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port to carry the card-shaped medium, and a motor for driving the medium feeder. A taking-in maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of a taking-in operation of a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port is set to be smaller than an ejecting maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of an ejecting operation of the card-shaped medium toward the insertion port. A control method for a card-shaped medium processing device may include the same relationship, i.e., the taking-in maximum value is set to be smaller than the ejecting maximum value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roller strip for constructing a roller conveyor, comprising a longitudinal carrier and a plurality of drive modules. Each drive module includes a roller and a drive for the roller, wherein a plurality of inserts are disposed along the longitudinal carrier for receiving the drive modules.

Abstract: The invention comprises a conveying device for mail piece goods, and a method for the automatic oriented placement of such piece goods in a container. The piece goods are discharged individually into the container via a slide. The slide is has two rolls in the region of the lower planar section of the conveying area. The rolls are power-operated at speeds that are different from each other, have a great section of the conveying area. The rolls are power-operated at speeds that are different from each other, have a great coefficient of friction on the surface thereof, and provide the piece goods with a defined speed in order for the piece goods to be dropped into the container in a targeted manner, be oriented properly, and be stacked. The closer one roll lies to the discharge end, the greater the speed of said roll is selected relative to another roll.

Abstract: An unscrambler conveyor including a frame, a plurality of tapered rollers rotatably supported by the frame for unscrambling packages, and means for driving the rollers. Each of the rollers has a longitudinal axis and a polyurethane body that extends along the longitudinal axis to form a tapered outer surface. The tapered outer surfaces of the rollers define a conveying surface and have variations in concentricity of less than 0.01 inches.

Abstract: A photosensitive material processing device for processing a photosensitive material with a processing liquid while conveying the photosensitive material by a roller pair. A driving device for providing a rotation drive to the roller pair. A drive controlling device that gradually raises voltage of the electric power at the time of starting the rotation drive of the roller pair.

Abstract: A brushless d.c. motor is integrated with a conveyor roller (14) by placing a plurality of stator coils (15) on a stationary shaft (18) and securing a rotor (10) with segments (12) of permanent magnetic material to the inside of the conveyor roller (14). In one embodiment the rotor (10) is directly secured to the roller while in a second embodiment, the rotor (10) is disposed inside of a cylindrical metal housing (40) that is press fit inside of the roller. Commutation is provided by an external motor controller (54) which is connected by conductors (37) through a passageway (36) in the shaft (18) to a circuit board (20), where sensors (23) are mounted to sense rotor position for purposes of commutation of the stator coils (15).

Abstract: Apparatus to transport and cool rolled products such as bars, round pieces, rods or similar, arrangable downstream of a coil-forming head, comprising a plurality of transport rollers, at least partly motorized and parallel to each other to define a substantially horizontal transport plane on which the rolled products arranged in coils are able to lie, ventilator in correspondence with the transport rollers to blow air towards the rolled products and a conveyor to convey more air towards the lateral edges of the coils than towards the central zone of the coils, the conveyor comprising a plurality of elements, arranged at intervals between the transport rollers. Each of the elements shaped to define transit channels having a first transverse section greater in correspondence with the ends of the transport rollers and a second transverse section less in correspondence with the median zone of the transport rollers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a powered roller bed with multiple rows of rollers, wherein two or more self-powered rollers are provided on each row along the bed. The rollers are preferably powered by electromagnetic motors having a stationary shaft and a rotating cylinder thereon so that each one can be independently controlled and operated. The present invention preferably provides a means of installing and removing each roller by hand without the aid of tools.

Abstract: A speed-increasing and accumulating conveyor chain includes a large-diameter mounting roller and small-diameter traveling rollers that are loosely fitted concentrically around a connecting pin through over an oil-impregnated sintered oil bushing concentrically. A lubricating oil is gradually discharged from the oil-impregnated sintered bushing, so that the chain can travel with a small chain-driving force as a whole while stably maintaining low friction coefficients at the loosely fitted portions between the connecting pin, the bushing, the mounting roller and the traveling rollers. The chain can, therefore, perform the speed-increasing function and the accumulating function by means of the mounting roller and the traveling rollers.

Abstract: A drive roller has a brushless D.C. motor with a stator or armature mounted on a fixed shaft and directly driving a 16 pole permanent magnet rotor mounted inside a roller tube. A motor controller drive supplies three-phase power to a Y-connected three phase winding having three groups of two coils, forming twelve electromagnets which drive the rotor. The modular motor is readily built in one inch increments to supply one lb-in of torque for each increment. The controller operates at a relatively low frequency of 15-75 Hz. Hall effect sensors provide feedback on motor speed and position. The armature laminations are relatively thick because of the relatively low power necessary to drive the motor and the resultant relatively low eddy currents present in the motor core. A 4.0 lb-in torque motor with a rotor and stator length of four inches will draw approximately 0.8 amps consuming about 15 Watts.

Abstract: The drive roller of this invention utilizes a brushless D.C. motor which has a stator or armature mounted on a fixed shaft which directly drives a permanent magnet rotor mounted inside a roller tube. A variable frequency drive supplies three-phase power to a Y-connected three phase winding which is composed of three groups of two coils. Thus twelve electromagnets are formed which drive the permanent magnet rotor which has sixteen poles. The brushless D.C. motor is of a modular design and can be easily built in one inch length increments to supply one lb-in of torque for each one-inch increment. The variable frequency controller operates at a relatively low frequency of 15-75 Hz. Hall effect sensors are used to provide feedback on motor speed and position. The armature laminations making up the brushless D.C. motor core are also relatively thick because of the relatively low power necessary to drive the motor and the resultant relatively low eddy currents present in the motor core. For a motor with a 4.

Abstract: A drive roller for a conveyor is rotated by a brushless D.C. motor without any intervening gear reducer. The drove roller has a laminated metal stator with at least three windings external to the stator core. The stator is fixed to a rigid axially extending shaft which supports a roller tube and a permanent magnet rotor on bearings. The rotor is fixed to the roller tube and closely spaced from the stator. A variable frequency power supply controls the induced magnetic field in the stator to control the rotational speed of the drive roller.

Abstract: An apparatus for optimizing the gap between objects on a roller conveyor is provide which enables independent precise speed and acceleration control of individual rollers and articles carried thereon using small, relatively inexpensive motors and control equipment. The present invention consists of adding a differential drive to the roller, arranged so that the majority of the power is transmitted from a common drive through a low ratio input of the differential drive of each roller. A smaller motor capable of more precise control is connected to the high ratio input of the differential drive of each roller. Thus the speed of an individual roller can be altered by adding to or subtracting from the speed of the main drive.

Abstract: A product size grading system comprises a roller bed having a plurality of rotary shafts wherein each shaft supports product sizing roller members. A motorized transmission is coupled to the plurality of rotary shafts and drives the rotary shafts in a uniform direction wherein each shaft in the roller bed rotates at a different speed. The speeds of the rotary shafts become progressively faster from the input end of the roller bed to its output end. The roller members comprise alternating conveyor disks and nubbin rollers threaded onto each of the rotary shafts. The nubbin rollers are relatively thick disks having a substantially polygonal cross section with flexible nubbins or vanes projecting radially outwardly therefrom. Each nubbin roller is sandwiched by a pair of thin conveyor disks which are also generally polygonal in shape, but have rounded crown portions between their flat portions. The combination of the nubbin rollers and the conveyor disks form product sizing pockets.

Abstract: Singulation apparatus (10) for transforming a plurality of randomly oriented tires (T) in an inlet hopper to a linear alignment of tires reposing on their sidewalls including, a singulator assembly (20) having a plurality of stepped conveyor stages (21-24) with tire sidewall engaging surfaces (25-29) which are angularly upwardly inclined, mechanisms (35, 35', 36, 37, 38, 39) for driving the sidewall engaging surfaces of each of the conveyor surfaces at differing linear velocities for unscrambling and spacing tires passing through the singulator assembly, an unloading chute (70) for accumulating tires received from the singulator assembly in laterally aligned relation, a download conveyor (85) for intermittently receiving tires from the unloading chute and depositing the tires in linear alignment on a discharge conveyor (100).

Abstract: An accumulating conveyor includes a plurality of load carrying rollers over which loads are conveyed from an upstream end of the conveyor to a downstream end. The rollers are divided into a plurality of zones. Each zone includes at least one drive roller and may include one or more idler rollers. Each zone includes a controller which is connected between the power supply and the drive roller for that zone. The controller receives a variable input signal which is indicative of the drive roller speed for the immediately adjacent downstream zone, and produces an output signal based on the variable input signal. The output signal is used to adjust the speed of the associated drive roller and is also used as the input signal for the controller of the next adjacent upstream zone. Accordingly, the speed of each zone is continuously adjusted based on the speed of its immediately preceding zone.

Abstract: A conveyor for arranging articles (9) which comprises a plurality of rollers (5) arranged side-by-side and means for rotating the rollers such that each roller can be rotated at a different rate from rollers adjacent to it. By appropriate selection of the rate of rotation of the rollers of the conveyor, articles supplied to the conveyor randomly can be arranged, for example aligned in rows (10).

Abstract: The invention is a screening device suitable for screening a liquid material having solid matter suspended in it, which comprises a number of sets of discs, the discs of each set being rigidly mounted on a shaft, with the discs on each shaft being separated from one another axially, means mounting the shafts about parallel axes, with the discs of adjacent shafts being interleaved with one another and means to cause the shafts to rotate independently in the same rotational sense such that successive shafts rotate progressively faster to cause the solid matter suspended in the liquid material to be moved in a direction from the slowest shaft to the fastest shaft. The device is used particularly in sewage processing plants.

Abstract: An article conveyor having a frame, a first conveyor with opposite sides for conveying articles in an first path, a wheel mounted to the frame for rotation relative thereto about a first axis and having an article engaging surface which advances articles as an incident of rotation of the wheel, structure for rotating the wheel about the first axis, and structure for selectively changing the orientation of the wheel and first axis between (a) a first position wherein the wheel advances articles engaged thereby in the first path and (b) a second position wherein the wheel advances articles engaged thereby in a second path that is transverse to the first path to thereby divert articles off of the first conveyor.

Abstract: An accumulating conveyor system and method for accumulating articles are disclosed. The first embodiment of the conveyor system (10) includes a primary conveyor belt (11) which moves within a transport channel (30) having horizontal rest rails (31). The primary conveyor belt (11) is preferably displaced in the vertical direction by means of an underlying accumulating conveyor belt (23) which includes a plurality of low plates (38) and high plates (39). When the primary conveyor belt (11) is positioned over the high plates (39), the articles (22) are transported in a plane above the rest rails (31), but when the primary conveyor belt (11) is supported upon the low plates (38), the articles (22) are supported by the rest rails (31) without the primary conveyor belt (11) rubbing against the bottoms of the articles (22). The second embodiment of the conveyor system (102) includes carrying rollers (83) which are engageable with a drive belt (84) by means of tension rollers (82).

Abstract: A roller conveyer system employs a plurality of driven roller assemblies. Each driven roller assembly comprises a roller and a driven pulley, wherein the driven pulley is connected to a driving device, such as a drive motor via a drive belt for transmitting driving torque. On the other hand, the roller is frictionally cooperates with the driven pulley so as to be driven by the driving torque transmitted from the driven pulley. An auxiliary driving mechanism may be provided in the conveyer system for driving some of the driven roller assemblies. The auxiliary driving mechanism is variable of the driving speed so as to facilitate rapid stop and feed of the object at each production station.

Abstract: A reversible conveyor wherein transmission of power is effected by a driving source to the conveyor, the conveyor being divided into two sections, wherein intermediate rollers are thrown from a drive position to a neutral position by a unit-load-controlled sensor in order to stop the unit load. Reversibility of the conveyor track is effected by placing in each section of the conveyor two intermediate rollers which act in opposite directions but always with only one of the intermediate rollers assuming the drive position.

Abstract: A conveyor for removing billets from an induction heating furnace and for separating them from following billets to which they may have become adhered employs a roller having a contoured surface. The roller is rotatably mounted about an axis skewed relative to its central axis so that it wobbles as it rotates, imparting a reciprocating force on the billet to separate it from the following billet to which it is adhered.

Abstract: A machine for the distribution of sheets comprises first and second conveyors, the first conveyor receiving groups of sheets and being drivable in directions toward or away from the second conveyor and the second conveyor being drivable in a direction away from the first conveyor, a control system for driving the second conveyor only when a group of sheets reaches it from the first conveyor and to stop the second conveyor when the group of sheets has passed over the second conveyor, a vertically movable stop member located above the second conveyor between a lowered position for stopping a group of sheets so as to form them into a layer and a raised position, the stop member being also movable along the second conveyor, the control system controlling the vertical movement of the stop member and movement of the first conveyor to move sheets away from the second conveyor when a layer of sheets has been formed on the latter.

Abstract: A conveyor for sorting and arranging in single file randomly received articles is disclosed. The unscrambling device has an acticle conveying surface consisting of skewed rollers divided into a number of zones arranged in tandem along the conveyor. The rollers in each zone from infeed to discharge are driven at increasingly higher speeds with the zones overlapping in such a manner that abrupt speed changes occur in steps both lengthwise and laterally of the conveyor. The articles are biased to one side of the conveyor which side is equipped with an article contacting rail divided into segments at least some of which are inclined to impart a jostling effect to the articles.

Abstract: Objects to be stacked on a pallet or packaged without using a pallet, are transported by a conveyor to an inlet roll track where the objects are assembled into rows, from the inlet roll track a row of the objects is transferred to an intermediate support member where a layer of rows of the objects are collected and then picked up by a forklift device for movement to a pallet or a stack support. The inlet roll track is made up of a number of rollers which can be driven at variable speeds with the rollers most remote from the inlet to the inlet roll track moving at the lowest speed. Alternatively, the rollers of the inlet roll track can be arranged in groups with each group operating at a different speed and capable of being switched on and off separate from the other groups. The stack support can be moved vertically so that the forklift device places each layer on it in about the same horizontal plane as the stack is built up.

Abstract: A conveyor stop structure arrests the forward motion of a selected article carried by a belt driven live roller conveyor and simultaneously disengages an associated roller from powered engagement with the belt. The stop structure includes a stop connected to conveyor frame members for upward pivotal movement, and a roller contacting cam for raising a selected roller from powered engagement with the belt. The stop has an angled lower portion which receives a bottom leading edge of the article and lifts at least the bottom leading edge from contact with another roller as the article swings the stop rearwardly and upwardly.

Abstract: A conveyor for separating and aligning glass sheets moving along a sheet movement path includes a plurality of cylindrical rolls skewed relative to the movement path to displace the advancing sheets toward a side of the conveyor. At the side of the conveyor the sheets are aligned by an endless belt rotating through a path parallel to the sheet movement path. Each successive roll in the direction of sheet advancement has increasing peripheral surface rotational speed to separate the advancing sheets.

Abstract: An article transporting conveyor having live rollers driven through power transmission rollers having a slip or non-slip connection with the live rollers in which the presence of the weight of articles to be conveyed increases the drive between the transmission rollers and the live rollers, but if the conveyor should experience a line blockage the transmission rollers would continue to function while the live rollers would slow and stop turning, thereby protecting the articles from damage and assuring minimum pressure on the articles from the drive transmission rollers.

Abstract: A drive system is disclosed which is particularly suitable for use in the glass industry. The drive system is for a plurality of conveying mechanisms to support and to move a load which may be discrete glass objects or a strip or sheet of glass. An electrical line shaft is created by using a plurality of squirrel cage synchronous motors which are connected to drive the conveying mechanisms, whether they be transfer mechanisms for discrete objects or rolls for conveying the strip of glass. One or more electrical inverters supply power to the motors so that not only are the motors operated in synchronism but also in phase register. Thus where discrete glass objects are conveyed the phase register of the transfer mechanisms between glass machines prevents glass breakage, and where rolls are conveying a strip of float glass, the phase register prevents difference in phase rotation of the rolls which could mar the surface of the float glass.